Encouraging collaboration and teamwork through open communication, understanding and cooperation between the employees, the Counseling Unit, BRAC University organized series of workshops on “Group Dynamics” for the dorm supervisors and the campus management staff of the Residential Campus. The journey started from summer’16 and end up in spring’17. Seven sessions were conducted by the Counseling Unit for them. The closing session was held on 19th May, 2017 from 07.00 pm to 08.30 pm at Residential Campus, Savar.
This series of workshops was designed by applying Psychodrama, theory of Transactional Analysis and some other tools from counseling techniques. Throughout the workshops, some tools were used to explore and understand the group cohesiveness and intimacy of the members of the RS. It aimed to help them to understand a person’s psychological structure which will be significant to improve their way of communication. On the other hand, developing empathetic understanding by improving the culture of recognition towards each other through giving and accepting feedback was the other purpose. The overall goal of this program was also to enhance their potentiality which will be contributing for this organization’s welfare.
To know participants feelings and thinking regarding the workshops, facilitator took their feedback in the last session. Some benefits which were shared by the participants was that their intimacy, empathetic understanding has increased which is beneficial for them to understand others emotions, thoughts as well their situation. By understanding this, they became more cooperative to each other than previous. Another significant change they noticed that when they started practicing to recognize others, that made them confident, worthy and dedicated towards the organization. They also realized that recognizing others were helpful for them to strengthen their relationship to work in collaboration.
Overall session was supportive to increase communication skills with students and other staff members. Participants also suggested that the continuation of the program will help them to explore self and others which will be helpful for their personal growth. At the end, facilitators also shared their feelings and their journey through the sessions. Lastly, the session was ended by giving thanks to each other with great satisfaction.